This document analyzes and compares various elements of music magazine covers, contents pages, and spreads. It discusses the color schemes, images, and features used for different magazines in genres like rock, pop, and R&B. Key elements that are compared between magazines include mastheads, headlines, photos, advertisements, and article formats across double page spreads and contents pages. The purpose is to examine design similarities and differences in presenting music content to readers.

1. Music Magazines

2. Music Magazine Front Cover Analysis
Mast-head
Main head line
Barcode
Main colours used in the colour scheme
for this magazine include white, yellow
and black. This colour scheme is included
in the mast head, main headlines, other
cover lines.
The model, Drake (music artiest) poses
with his eye looking at the camera in a
mid-shot, and arms beside him. The
model (Drake) is wearing a black tee shirt
with ‘unstoppable’ in bold capital white
characters. Also has silver jewellery with
Jewish symbols, representing his Jewish
backgrounds with a black cap on.
Model credit
Main image
Also include these
celebrities
Stamp

3. Music Magazine Contents Page
Unusually this contents page from karrang has a large
amount of space used for a picture of the band and a
basic summery of the story included in the magazine.
The contents page itself is designed to look like the
page has been ripped in half, exposing the black
background on the left. The font on this side is white,
red and yellow; while its black on the right where the
background is white.
There seems to be more pictures on this contents
page, as there are usually either one or two, but here
there is four.
Recycle logo
headings
Contents

4. Double Page Spread Analysis
The main picture used in this article is the interviewee of this interview, her
red outfit is bright against the white background; and to match her
outfit some of the text is also red. The quote in the middle of the
double page spread is styled in a newspaper letter cut-out fashion.
Quote
Title of
article
Article
Model

5. Double Page Spread Comparison
Main picture
Over sized first letter
Features of Double Page Spread:
-More than 3 pictures
-- extra features in article page
--information on gigs
Features of Double Page Spread:
-Only one main image used
-Over sized first letter than covers a whole
page.
-- only including image, text, letter and model
name (Lady GAGA).

6. Music Magazine Front Cover
Comparison
Mast head
Main headline
Price
Other articles
Issue number
Differences between two different genred magazines:
Kerrang, rock magazine;
- Stamp
- Competitions
- Another picture of another artist
- No extras
Differences between two different genred magazines:
Rootz, rock magazine;
- Website advertised
- Shows price in different currencys

7. Contents Page Analysis
Contents title
Main image
Main article
Date
Difference between different music magazine
contents pages:
NME contents;
-subscription for magazine advert
Difference between different music magazine
contents pages:
NME contents;
-two pictures of different artists in contents
page

8. Different Music genres
Blues
Counrty
Electronic
Hip Hop
Jazz
Pop
R&B
Rock
Reggae
Punk
Classical
Dance